Word: genericizing
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Araki shot the movie on location, with no permits and a minimal crew. The gritty starkness of the scenes gives the movie a sincere, authentic feel. When the six friends go out to a nightclub, Araki uses the dim, reddish lights, loud generic music and their encounter with two guys in drag to convey the raw alienation of the kids...
...council apply for grants from the College. Let it be renamed "Harvard-Radcliffe Generic Government Simulation Game." And let its members be praised for what they really are instead of condemned for what they want...
...grateful for my family. I am grateful for the opportunity to go to Harvard. But every year we say that in such generic terms that it sounds like we don't even believe it anymore...
...strangers they had briefly met, and hardly got to know, but who would now be running Congress. These strangers rode to victory on a shoeshine and a smile and a sample case full of miracle cures. They gave few specifics, but never mind. Voters were convinced that their generic bromides looked better than what the Democrats . had been peddling. Of those who uprooted hardy Democratic perennials, few were more unlikely than Texas Congressman-elect Steve Stockman and Tennessee Senator-elect Bill Frist...
...Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) disagreed. In a three-page ruling. Associate Justice Neil L. Lynch '52 concluded that "the term 'federal penitentiary' is used in its generic sense...